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I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Life

I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Belief is central to science as well as religion – but we rarely stop to think how bizarre it is. Find out what your core values are really built on

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Large cache of giant lemur bones found in flooded cave

Life

Large cache of giant lemur bones found in flooded cave

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Tongues may have evolved from a mouthful of water

Life

Tongues may have evolved from a mouthful of water

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Conifer seed fossils caught learning helicopter flight

Life

Conifer seed fossils caught learning helicopter flight

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Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution

Life

Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution

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Chameleons don't change colour, they use smart mirrors

Life

Chameleons don't change colour, they use smart mirrors

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The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry

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The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry

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Zoologger: Moustache helps hipster spider catch prey

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Zoologger: Moustache helps hipster spider catch prey

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Oldest known member of human family found in Ethiopia

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Oldest known member of human family found in Ethiopia

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Evolution's big bang: How life on Earth took off

Life

Evolution's big bang: How life on Earth took off

Life was single-celled and boring for billions of years, then BOOM! the ancestors of most animals alive today appeared – thanks to a perfect storm of events

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Did sponge microbiomes help aerate the oceans?

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Life

A New History of Life shows we're not extinction-proof

CultureLab

Life

Jurassic fossils reveal varied life of early mammals

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Earth

We've got the evolution of complex cells inside-out

Opinion